MMB Chapter 322 The Strange Cover
Chapter 322 The Strange Cover
Chapter 322 The Strange Cover
After a busy morning, Liang En fished out two silver coins, one gold coin and seven or eight pieces of various rusty metal pieces from the shallows.
Although these metal pieces were already covered with yellow and green rust, Liang En could tell that most of them were iron parts of the ship.
As for those gold and silver coins, they all came from the Arab Empire. As a middleman on the Silk Road, and a wealthy area in the Old World second only to the Far East, the Arab Empire monopolized international trade. Those gold and silver coins are naturally common in the entire business road. .
Although theoretically speaking, Huaxia in the Far East was the real rich place at that time, but at that time Huaxia used copper coins, which were not convenient for transportation, and at the same time, it was far inferior to gold and silver as a hard currency.
Therefore, when all international trade merchants leave China, they often exchange all their money for various commodities, and basically do not leave with copper coins.
Therefore, various gold or silver coins are often dug up on the Silk Road, but after leaving the radiation range of Chinese civilization, it is difficult to find many copper coins from China.
However, the discovery of these gold and silver coins does not add much value to this excavation work. After all, a large amount of porcelain and other products have been dug up before, so a few gold and silver coins can be regarded as a bit of icing on the cake at best.
But obviously these things are not all the cultural relics scattered on this shoal, because there are a lot of aquatic life growing on the reef, and the ship has sunk for 800 years, so there are a lot of things that should be buried in those sediments below.
"Try with a few cards." Seeing that the entire reef beach is not too big, Liang En started thinking about using his own cards, "Maybe we can find something interesting."
If this was just an ordinary relic, Liang En would definitely not be willing to consume his own cards. After all, it is not easy to accumulate cards one by one.
But what he discovered before can already explain the importance of this ruin, so he hopes to find more valuable things, and see if he can swipe a few new cards to get them out.
Although it is impossible for him to keep these things for himself, as long as he finds them with his own hands, he can always get a few valuable cards.
But then again, the reason why Liang En was willing to invest precious cards in such a risky project this time had something to do with the fact that he had saved a lot of cards before and had a lot more money on hand.
Of course, no matter how loose the hand is, thrift is a must. Therefore, Liang En also searched and judged repeatedly and decided on three excavation sites.
These excavation points are mainly concentrated on the side of the reef that was hit by the ship that year, and are located in the inner part of the reef, which can avoid the erosion of the tide.
[Detection (N)] Each card can mark the thing with the most historical value in the space of a giant sphere with a radius of 5m centered on itself, but what you find depends on luck.
So after eating a fresh seafood meal, he asked for a straw hat to put on his head full of energy, and then returned to the excavation site alone.
The reason why he returned alone was because the other two people in the morning could no longer bear the scorching sun and sea water and slipped back to the boat. Only Liang En, with his body strengthened many times and the special strengthening provided by the card Viking Pirates, could keep on.
But what Liang En didn't expect was that his behavior won unanimous praise from the scholars on board, because for these pure scholars, it is indeed admirable to be able to search in the sea under the sun for academics. things.
Of course, Liang En didn't know what the scholars on board thought. He was prying the reef with all his strength with the metal stick in his hand, because the place shown on the third card was just below the reef.
"I'm so stupid!" Just as he was sweating profusely, enduring the stimulation of sea salt on his skin and digging continuously, he suddenly had an idea to stop his hands, and then activated [Rock Control (SR)] .
For a moment, the stones in front of Liang En were as soft as rubber, and then gradually separated as if being kneaded by a big hand, revealing the thing hidden underneath.
Obviously, this place should have been a crevice on the reef before, but later, due to some geological changes, reefs in other areas fell down and blocked the crevice.
Over time, the secretions of the molluscs and corals that made their home on the reef fused with the sand and rock like rock.
Seriously, if the card didn't show that Dong XZ was thirty or forty centimeters below the reef, normal people might never find this thing.
Because for normal people, these reefs mixed with some metal fragments belonging to shipwrecks will obviously trigger the reaction of metal detectors, and they will not even think about what is inside.
After reaching into the crevice of the stone to take out the thing, Liang En found that it was a silver object that had been blackened by soaking in sea water. At first glance, it looked like a small plate.
However, after a brief inspection, he found that this palm-sized silver handicraft was not a plate, but a teacup, wine glass or bowl cover.
The reason why it can be judged that this is a cover is also very simple, because there is a ring-shaped handle just below the thing, which is obviously impossible to use as a base.
More importantly, Liang En had seen many Mongolian gaiwans or cups in the photos before, and this gaiwan was almost exactly the same style as the lids on the gaiwans he had seen before.
In addition to the cover, Liang En also took out a well-preserved Song and Yuan style silver-plated hairpin and a pure gold gourd-shaped earring from the gap in the reef.
"What's so strange about this bowl cover?" Liang En looked at the cover that could be placed in his hand in puzzlement and frowned.
Although a bowl or cup lid left over from the Yuan Dynasty is very valuable, especially the lid has very exquisite patterns on it, which seems to have been used by dignitaries in ancient times, but such a single lid does not matter how precious it is. As for.
In particular, besides the cover, there is also a beautifully made hairpin and a pure gold earring in the crevice of the stone. No matter from which angle you look at it, the cover does not seem to be more precious than the other two items.
In particular, the hairpin is a phoenix head hairpin and a silver phoenix head hairpin.The upper body of the silver phoenix is hammered and fastened separately, and then welded to the wings of the phoenix.
There is a rosette in the mouth of the phoenix. After shaking it lightly, it can even be seen that the movable structures that have not been corroded by sea water can even move, and make a somewhat low collision sound. It should be a fine product from that year. .
After realizing this, Liang En put away the earrings and hairpin, and then continued to check the silver cover carefully. At first, he focused on the silver cover itself, but there was no inscription on it.
However, when he checked the lid handle, he found that the silver ring that he thought was the lid handle was not made together with the main part of the bag, but a silver ring that was welded on.
(End of this chapter)